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Decolonising Research examines the effectiveness of indigenous research methodologies for studying Africa while also examining their effectiveness for generating relevant knowledge and practical research outcomes for community/national problem-solving.
Considering theories of empowerment and social justice, researching indigenous communities required participatory and collaborative methodologies, this book fills research methodological gaps and offers a Sub-Saharan African lens to the research of South Sudan, Northern Uganda, Kenya/Somalia, Somaliland, Botswana, Nigeria and Ghana. It does this by identifying and discussing the "How", "What" and "Why" of these methodologies as they pertain to themes of indigeneity, silence, ethics, ceremony, botho, joking relationship, orality, divinations, and Sub-Sahara Africa.
This book includes contributions from early career academics, academic practitioners who are all emerging as leading experts in their field. It will be of broader interest to postgraduate students, international agencies/personnel, governments, and policy-makers conducting ethnographic or contextual/participatory research and research implementation.
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Introduction to the book. By Dr Winnifred Bedigen and Dr Nankie Ramabu.
Chapter Two: Beyond the Insider/Outsider Binary in Fieldwork: Intersectionality as an Alternative Analysis of a Fieldwork Experience in Uganda. By Dr Eunice Akullo
Chapter Three: Fluid Ethnography: Ceremony Research Methodology (CRM) in Nilotic Societies of Southern South Sudan. By Dr Winnifred Bedigen
Chapter Four: Ceremonial Taboos for Uncovering Gendered Power Relations in the Tachoni Circumcision Ritual. By Dr Lucy K.L Mandillah
Chapter Five: Exploring Botho philosophy as a foundation for a culturally relevant and ethical participative research process: Considerations and reflections from a mixed method project in Botswana. By Dr Nankie Ramabu
Chapter Six: Orality and reflexivity in empirical research: Re-imagining the unwritten past in post-conflict northern Uganda. By Dr Betty Okot
Chapter Seven: The Ontological Significance of Silence in African Communities: Exploring How Silence Communicates in Botswana, and southern South Sudan. By Dr Nankie Ramabu and Dr Winnifred Bedigen
Chapter Eight: Negotiating Power, Reflexivity and Positionality: Gender and the Joking Relationship in Researching Women in Rural Northern Ghana. By Dr Constance Awinpoka Akurugu
Chapter Nine: Decolonising Data: Indigenous Methodologies for Community-Driven Research in Sub-Saharan Africa. By Dr John Mary Kanyamurwa
Chapter Ten: Rethinking Governance Evaluation: Influencing Policy Outcomes through the African Peer Review Mechanism in Uganda. By Dr Martin Kizito
Chapter Eleven: Conclusion By Dr Winnifred Bedigen and Dr Nankie Ramabu
